Yesterday (or the day before), as I already noted, I read De Haan and Fuchs’ essay “The Ghost in the Machine: Disembodiment in Schizophrenia –Two Case Studies.” The main reason I’m writing this very quick critical commentary is because of the superficial kinship between what D and F term “hyperautomaticity” and the idea of mnemonic … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS): A sarcastic and not especially serious commentary
If I weren’t such an assiduous—and perhaps even obsessive—reader of Schizophrenia Bulletin, I probably never would have come across this (relatively) new scale (designed in the cognitivist tradition by Beck and company). But there it was…sitting in my inbox. Now, before I drop all attempts at serious critique, let me say that I don’t necessarily … Continue reading »
